Researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle have received a $7 million five-year renewal grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Cancer Institute (NCI) to continue research in molecular imaging of cancer and its response to therapy. This new award is funded through 2016.
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has announced the results of its recent election. These new officers will begin their terms at the society’s 53rd annual meeting in Miami Beach, Fla., which will be held Oct. 2-6.
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has awarded five physicians with one of two grants—the Junior Faculty Career Research Training Award and the Residents/Fellows in Radiation Oncology Research Seed Grant Award.
After surviving childhood cancer, patients who experience a subsequent neoplasm face a large increase in the risk of developing additional neoplasms, with more than one-quarter developing third or subsequent tumors, and particularly high rates found among those treated for nonmelanoma skin cancers, according to the authors of a large study published June 27 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Elekta has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Nucletron for EUR365 million ($524.39 million U.S.) in cash. After the aquisition is completed, Elekta said it will offer radiotherapy planning and delivery technologies with the addition of Nucletron's brachytherapy treatment planning and delivery systems.
Northern California provider John Muir Health has opened the Theresa M. Caygill Breast Health Center, which will offer patient screening, treatment, education and other services.
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Molecular radiotherapy needs an injection of research and funding to broaden its usage and expand its effectiveness as a minimally invasive method of cancer treatment, according to an April report released by the British Institute of Radiology (BIR).
The American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) and the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) have decided to release their complete Online Digital Imaging Academy course to all ARRT-recognized radiography, nuclear medicine and radiation therapy education programs in the U.S.
Overall cancer incidence in the U.S. decreased by nearly 1 percent per year between 2003 and 2007, with mortality falling by twice that figure across all four years, thanks largely to advances in diagnostic imaging, showed the findings of a report published in the April edition of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Two National Cancer Institute clinical trials group members—the American College of Radiology’s Imaging Network (ACRIN) and the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG)—are combining their cancer research program to form a single organization.
IsoRay, which manufactures Cesium-131 used in internal radiation therapy (brachytherapy) for the treatment of lung, brain, colon, head and neck, ocular melanoma and prostate cancer, has announced its second quarter financial results that showed narrowing of net losses despite a decrease in net sales, which ended Dec. 31, 2010.
A large proportion of physicians do not participate in clinical cancer trials, with a lack of funding and underdeveloped hospital infrastructures and IT preventing nearly half of cancer specialists from enrolling patients in research trials, according to a study published Feb. 11 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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